Collar supporter



INVENTOR STANLEYL. GEDNEY BY @mflr ATTORNEYS s L GEDNEY COLLAR SUPPORTER Filed Feb. 19, 192 5 Oct. 6 1925- WITNESSES 5% MW Patented Oct. 6, 1925.

UNITED STATES STANLEY I. GEDNEY, OF MAPLEWO'OD, NEW JERSEY.

COLLAR SUPPORTER.

Application filed February 19, 1925. Serial No. 10,873.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known that I, STANLEY L. GEDNEY, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Maplewood, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Collar Supporter, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention relates to collar supporters,

ers heretofore made, and have myself invented and patented devices of this kind, and, in order to clearly distinguishfrom this prior art, I make special reference to my Patent No. 1,374,007, granted April 5, 1921, which discloses a collar fastener designed for holding in proper position the outer portions of a turnover collar.

In my patent above referred to and in other structures designed for the same purpose, the bar or member carrying the collar engaging hooks or clamping devices lies in a plane spaced from the neckband of the collar so that the necktie must be bent or bowed outwardly and upwardly over said bar or member. In fact, one of the purposes of prior devices has been to hold the necktie up within the collar and prevent spread ing of the soft collar.

The device for which I am now applying for patent is for a totally different purpose. Its function is to hold the outer portions of the collar spaced from the neckband of thecollar and offer no obstruction to the necktie, allowing the necktie to lie straight within the collar the same is if no supporter were employed. 9

One reason for this advance in the art is that the present types of soft collars in general use, known as semi-soft collars, do not require the holding of the outer portions of the turnover collar against spreading but they do require a device such as I have invented which prevents them from displacement laterally and which holds them out from the neckband of the collar. Hence, the device forming the subject matter of this application, while Somewhat similar in its general construction to that of my patent above referred to, is sufficiently different in construction and in its operation to perform an entirely new and improved result, all of which will be more fully hereinafter explained and pointed out in the claims.

With these and other objects in view, the invention consists in certain novel features of construction and combinations and arrangements of parts which will be more fully hereinafter described and pointed out in the claims.

In the accompanying drawings--- Figure 1 is a perspective view illustrating my improved device in operative position on a collar;

Figure 2 is a fragmentary view in horizontal section illustrating my device in operative position;

Figure 3 is a perspective view of a modified form of my device;

Figure 4 is a view in elevation illustrating another modification.

A represents a collar of the turnover, seml-s'oft type, which has an inner neckband portion 1 and an outer portion 2.

My improved collar supporter comprises a length of metal 3, which may be of wire as shown in Fi re 1, or it may comprise a metal strip as lllustrated in Figure 3, and may be of precious, semi-precious or other suitable metal or other material.

The intermediate portion of the device comprises a slightly curved bar or rod ethaving at its ends a pair of collar engaging clamps 5, 5 which are disposed at an acute angle with relation to the rod or bar 4 and are formed preferably integral therewith.

The device as a whole is composed of a strip of metal, which may be wire or a bar of any desired width, curved intermediate its ends, and at its ends bent outwardly and then upon itself, forming the clamps 5 above referred to.

The intermediate portion of the device indicated by the reference numeral 4: lies smooth against the collar band 1 of the collar A, while the clamps or gripping members 5 engage the edges of the outer portions 2 of the collar and hold said outer portions spaced from the neckband 1 and also hold said outer portions against spreading apart or other movement. In other words, the device functions to hold the collar in its normal or proper shape, preventing distortion; and, furthermore, it will be noted that the device does not interfere in any way with the proper position of the necktie, indicated by the reference numeral 6.

My device, therefore, comprises a member or portion 4 which acts as an abutment against the neckband of the collar and with portions at the ends thereof which act as gripping devices to en age the outer portions of the collar and o (1 said outer portions properly s aced from the neckband and in proper re ation to each other and to the neckband.

In the modification illustrated in Figure 4, I have shown the device as comprising two sections 6 and 7 having screw threaded ends 8 engaging in a sleeve 9 which functions as a turnbuckle to allow the device to be adjusted and lengthened or shortened to suit the particular desire of the user in accordance with the collar on which the device is to be laced.

In *igure 3 I illustrate a construction which is precisely like that of the preferred form except that the device 3'is formed of a flat strip 10 instead of wire.

Various slight changes and alterations might be made in the general form of the parts described without departing from my invention and hence I do not limit myself to the precise details set forth but consider myself at liberty to make such slight changes I and alterations as fairly fall .within the spirit and scope of the appended claims. 7

I claim:

1. A collar supporter, comprising a pair ofgripping devices adapted to engage the outer ortions of a turnover collar at the front t lereof, and a member connecting the gripping devices and of a length greater than the space between the outer portions of the collar and curved throughout its length concentrically with the normal curvature of the collar band and adapted to lie smoothly against the collar band, said gripping dev1ces being located at an angle to the connecting member and functioning .to hold said outer portions of the collar spaced from the neckband, and spaced from each other, and said device as a whole adapted to so hold the collar as to provide an unobstructed necktie receiving portion within the collar.

2. A device of the character described, constructed to perform the functions stated, and comprising two members having collar gripping devices at their outer ends and screw-threaded at their inner ends, and an internally threaded sleeve connecting the two members and permitting adjustment thereof.

STANLEY L. GEDNEY. 

